Toy savings-bank.



G. J. HEIDEL.

TOY SAVINGS BANK. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1912.

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TOY SAVINGS-BANK.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented BIal. 24:, 1914- Application filed November 25, 1912. Serial No. 733,515.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. Hnmnn, a citizen of the United States of Amenca,

and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toy Savings-Banks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toy savingsbanks or, more particularly speaking, to receptacles used by children and others in depositing coins for the purpose of saving them for future use and such receptacles being proof against ordinary removal of the coins except by the mutilation of some part of the receptacle or its entire structure.

The invention herein consists of vertical side-walls formed of a single piece of heavy straw-board or binders board suitably bent into a plurality of corners, a single piece of binders cloth covering said side-walls on the outside thereof, a solid bottom of said heavy straw-board for said side-walls and suitably held in place by lower extensions of said binders cloth, a top lid or cover made of said straw-board and having an elongated opening forming a coin-inlet therein and secured in place by means of upward extensions of said binders cloth, and a strip or plate of resilient material secured at one end to the underside of said lid or cover and with its fore edge extending beneath said coin-inlet whereby coins may be inserted through said inlet by pressing their edges downwardly on said fore edge of the resilient strip or plate and which latter forms an obstruction'to the outward removal of said coins therethrough when once deposited.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement, showing its outward appearance; Fig. 2, a vertical section taken transversely across the deposit-slit and on a line with one of the riveted portions used in securing one edge of the resilient plate or spring to the underside of the lid or cover of the receptacle; Fig. 3, a fragmentary portion of Fig. 2 showing the manner in which a coin is being deposited so as to pass the free fore edge of the said resilient plate or spring; and Fig. 4:, a horizontal section, taken on the dotted line a, a of Fig. 2, look-- ing upwardly toward the underside of the top or cover of the device.

cheaply so that, in use,

1 indicates a single piece of heavy strawboard or binders board bent at three regular intervals 2, 3 and 4 so as to form the four vertical side-walls of thedevice herein, the fourth corner 5 being completed by the lapped ends of the straw-board, as best shown in Fig. 4. In order to readily bend said heavy straw-board at the three intervals 2, 3 and 4:, it is best to crease said strawboard at each'of those intervals to facilitate the bending and to avoid wetting the material which would only serve to cause its layers or plies to part. Said creasing also avoids the breaking of the corners in bending and permits the use of very heavy material that is desired in this structure.

6 indicates a rectangular piece of heavy straw-board, similar to that forming the said side-walls and formingthe bottom of the device.

7 indicates a rectangular piece of said heavy straw-board, corresponding to the bottom 6 and forming the top or cover of the device. V

8 indicates a single strip of binders cloth used for the purpose of covering the said side-walls and of uniting the lapped ends thereof, as best shown in Fig. 4. This bind'ers cloth is suitably stuck to said side walls and has bottom extensions or inwardly-turned flaps 9 to secure the bottom 6 in place, and, also, upper inwardlydisposed extensions or flaps 10 for securing the top or cover 7 in place on said sidewalls, all as best seen in Fig. 2.

A hollow, cubic receptacle or box is now formed by said side-walls, bottom, cover and binders cloth whose interior cannot be approached without mutilation of some partthereof.

The device is very economically made, being light and durable and can be sold very slight expense results when it is broken up or smashed to get at its interior for the removal of its contents.

To insert coins within the receptacle an elongated opening or slit 11 is pierced in the top or cover 7 and a flat spring 12 is secured by means of rivets 13 on the underside of the cover so that its fore edge 14 extends beneath the said slit 11 and normally closes same, as best seen in Fig. 2. The spring 12 may be made of steel or any other suitable resilient material whose free fore edge 14 can be duly depressed by the edge of the coin When the latter is to be inserted in the receptacle, as best shown in Fig. 8, the coin 15 being shown in its passage through the inlet 11 and with its lower edge just passed beyond the said fore edge of the spring. Said spring forms a suitable shutter or automatically-closing gate in the said elongated opening or slit 11 to prevent deposited coins from being removed from Within the receptacle by either shaking the device or moving it to and fro in an effort to unduly remove the coins, and forms an important feature of my invention herein, especially when it is desired to reduce the temptation to withdraw. any of the coins from the little bank before the time is ripe or right for using the savings.

The spring 12 effectually prevents any removal of the coins through the slit 11 even if an attempt is made to depress the spring by means of some implement inserted through said slit 11, asno coins could pass out of said slit with said implement therein and, to prevent a pointed implement being inserted through the straw-board cover to depress said spring back of the slit 11, I form said spring with an upper leaf 16 that is duly secured Within the underside of the top or cover 7 and which is puncture-proof to said pointed implement.

It will be observed, in Figs. 2 and 3 that the longitudinal side-walls of the slit 11 are made slanting toward the free fore edge of the spring 12. This is the preferred manner in which to construct said slit so that the coins are properly guided through it to said fore edge of the spring for deposit, as best seen in Fig. 3, it taking much less pressure on the spring to make such deposits than it would if the sides of said slit were made perpendicular. Besides, it is not thereby necessary to depress the spring so deeply as it would if said sides of the coinslit were made perpendicular, as is obvious.

To readily remove the coins, when it is desired to use them, a hammer or other blunt instrument can be used to break in or demolish the top or cover of the device which will not resist a blow or two therefrom.

I claim A toy bank having one wall thereof formed with a coin slot disposed at an angle to both the relative inner and outer surfaces of said wall, and a closure for the slot comprising a double-leaf member having a width exceeding the length of the slot. one leaf of said member extending beyond the free terminal of the other leaf, means for securing the shorter leaf of the member to the slotted wall and means for securing both leaves to the slotted wall remote from their free ends, the free end of the long leaf underlying and bridging the full width of the slot, the inclined disposition of the slot facilitating the displacement of the underlying leaf on the introduction of the coin.

CHARLES J. HEIDEL. lVitnesses JOHN ELIAS J ours, LORETTA LUCK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

